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Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union and remained president until her death she was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist
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The U.S. Congress made three key objectives for monetary policy in the Federal Reserve Act. maximizing employment, stabilizing prices, and moderating long-term interest rates.
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The rounding up and deportation of hundreds of immigrants from political views by the federal government This scare was caused by fears of subversion by communists
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most important writer and thinker of the harlem renaissance.
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Prohibition in the U.S. was a nationwide ban on the production, importation, transportation and sale of alcoholic beverages.
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the name given to the collection of NYC music publishers and songwriters who took over the popular music of the U.S. in the late 19th and early 20th century
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used to go further into the aims of laissez faire , capitalism, immigration control, eugenics, colonialism. Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection also known as "the survival of the fittest,"
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warren g hardings campaign promise was to return to the way of life before World War I, in the election of 1920.
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Discovered the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League. Pan-African philosophy which inspired a global mass movement, known as Garveyism.
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was a bribery incident that took place in the U.S.
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John Thomas scopes , a young high school science teacher who was accused of teaching evolution in violation of TN state law.
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joined the prosecution in the trial of John Scopes a Tn. school teacher charged with violating school laws of teaching evolution
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Made the 1st solo nonstop flight across the atlantic ocean.
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the start of the Depression in 1929 is known as the "Jazz Age". Jazz had become popular in America . older generations considered the music immoral and threatening to old cultural values.
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Was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the U.S.
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the U.S.Constitution moved the start and ending terms of the president and vice president from March 4 to January 20 and members of Congress from March 4 to January 3.
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a group of U.S. government programs that President Franklin D. Roosevelt started. The programs were to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depression
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leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern U.S. to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West.
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was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the agriculture of the U.S. and Canadian prairies , severe drought and a failure to add dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion
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made the first v8 engine.
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a U.S. government agency that oversees security transactions , activities of financial professionals and mutual fund trading to prevent fraud.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term as governor of New York when he was elected as the nation’s 32nd president
he tried to restore public confidence and proclaim a bank holiday .
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was the deepest and longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world in the U.S. the Great Depression began little after the stock market crash
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the three R's were introduced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression to address the problems of mass unemployment and the economic problems
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She was an early champion of civil rights for African Americans also well an advocate for women, american workers, and the poor and young people. She also supported government funded programs for artists and writers.
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a federally owned corporation in the U.S. created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley.
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U.S. corporation insuring deposits in the U.S. against bank failure. The FDIC was created to maintain public confidence and encourage stability in the financial systems.
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ended prohibition. gave states permission to transport/sell alcohol
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photographer whose made portraits of displaced farmers during the Great Depression . her and her husband traveled a lot together documenting the rural hardship they saw for the Farm Security Administration and established it by the U.S. Agriculture Department.
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provided for the general welfare by creating a system of old age benefits and by allowing several states to make more things for aged people, blind people, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment
